Daily Republican., 1887-11-25

a HIRED GIRLS IDEas.
kelding Eagle.

heidlnS Esgle.
"a good deal has been put in the
Eagle about hired girls, have now
lived three years as maid in a good
family, and l ought 10 know little
about it. Before l hired out worked
in factory where | made So week,
nearly as much as my father earned,
who worked for the Reading Water
Department. He got 81 .25 day, but
did not have steady work in winter
and he had to stor off when it rained
well, to make long story short, l
wanted q better home. My younger
sister got Of age, and could hel p moth
er do the work. / got good chance
TO hire out. and was paid 80 week (;
of course could do all kinds OF house
work, cook, wash, iron, bake. scrub,
go TO market, anything and every
thing, even tending the heater in the
cellar. Many girls said l was foolish
to be dishwasher, and drudge, but
told them they were silly.
81 have now been hired out three
years, and l find / have better clothes
than l ever had before; | have much
better room; 1t is warm in winter;
have more money than | ever had be
fore: my home is all my heart car
wish; can 60 out any night please
but have no business out more than
one or two evenings week; l have
only one boss and that is the mistress
no one else gives me orders; she give'
me underc.othing, house shoes, trim,
mings, and many little presents. Or
holidays she always remembers me.
II am healthy and stout, and ea'
the same food the family gets. coult
eat with the family, but know m,
place and eat In the kitchen. w
have a half grown girl who gets he
board and clothes. She eats and sleep!
with me. am teaching her all OF III,
ways One OF these days | may &c
married and by that time the girl vii
be big enough to take my place.
II have a beau, but do not brinl
him into the house. Sometimes w
meet at my mothers or at my sisters
He brings me home from church an
other places when l am out, II
were mistress | would not allow an
courting in my house.
MY board is worth So so a week
that's sure thing. My wages are S
week, paid to me every Saturday
That's $3.50. Now the clothes en-
presents | get average at least 81
week the year round, so that l g
81. so week anyhow. | have wor
all the year; there is no factory t
stop; no strike, no repairs, no fallin
off in orders. | always have WORK
always have good company: learl
something every day, and l find l an
much more of a lady now than eve
WAS before. Besides l know all abou
nice housekeeping which l learne
from my mistress. l have been goin
to school, you may say, and in ever
way am much better Oft, tar bette
than any factory girl I know.
"Of course l know every hirel gil
don't get s. a week, but thi
is their own fault. They mus
learn. II they get $3.50 a wee
they must stir about and try
work more and better, and in th'
way they can build themselves up an
improve, SO that higher wages will
paid to them. l don't sit in the parlt
because | am not allowed to and don
want to. That is not my place. If
have no work, so to my room and
my own sewing. Two weeks ago
bought a building lot on the outskir
and paid for it in cash.
MY advice to the girls is, to hi
out instead of going into store {
factory. Many more hired girls g
husbands than store girls. Young me
don't want store girls for their wive
They want women who know how
run n house. That is, sensible men d
and any others are no good"